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its 2019 and people in developed countries still care about (and support with their taxes) kings, queens, emperors and such?!
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Off the top of my head, most Western European monarchs headed governments in exile on the side of the allied powers, where are you getting that a great many sided with the wrong side of history?
Italy, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_monarchies#Mode...
its 2019 and people in developed countries still care about (and support with their taxes) kings, queens, emperors and such?!
You're very well aware this occurs. Are you trying to ask why, or to make some social commentary, or were you just deploying snark?
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Not exactly; notice the following passage: > What is striking is that 74% have no objection to the offspring of a woman emperor succeeding to the throne. If this were to happen, it would be an historical first. Women have succeeded to the throne, but they have been succeeded in turn by offspring of an earlier male emperor. Every emperor (in theory) has been able to trace their ancestry back to the sun goddess through…
> sun goddess > paternal line Hmmm. I mean, I guess it depends whether you count her sons as the first generation or not, but still, why would deity-ness (is there a better word for this? Deism?) pass from her to her sons and thence only to their sons?
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In the UK I think about 70% of people support the Queen, our head of state. How many people in the US support their head of state? Less than 50%. In practice, it seems to work well for us. We get a representative that most people support. The US republic fails to do that and their representative is always deeply divisive.
The queen is not your representative, but you are all her “subjects”. She is literally above the law and is thus, by law, some kind of “higher” human than others, which is hilarious. I actually respect your current queen, Elizabeth 2, a person - she is doing great given the situation she was born into . But I despise royals as an institution of power and priveledge.
This is not true - very few people are subjects.
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality/british-subj...
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Not exactly; notice the following passage: > What is striking is that 74% have no objection to the offspring of a woman emperor succeeding to the throne. If this were to happen, it would be an historical first. Women have succeeded to the throne, but they have been succeeded in turn by offspring of an earlier male emperor. Every emperor (in theory) has been able to trace their ancestry back to the sun goddess through…
> sun goddess > paternal line Hmmm. I mean, I guess it depends whether you count her sons as the first generation or not, but still, why would deity-ness (is there a better word for this? Deism?) pass from her to her sons and thence only to their sons?
> There is, after all, ample precedent for this: women have succeeded to the throne on ten previous occasions > [When this comes to pass,] the emperor system, which depends on an unbroken line of male heirs, will collapse. These two statements seem to be in conflict.
Per wikipedia it's a patrilineal system, where women are eligible to succeed to the throne but their children aren't. So there have been empresses, but the imperial line itself is still (ostensibly) an unbroken series of male heirs. > On some occasions [of a reigning empress], the direct male heir was only a toddler and unable to perform the imperial rituals. In such an instance, his mother, aunt or elder sister, if…
its 2019 and people in developed countries still care about (and support with their taxes) kings, queens, emperors and such?!
I wonder, of civilizations that have lasted the longest, which ones had kings, queens, emperors and such versus the opposite?
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Not exactly; notice the following passage: > What is striking is that 74% have no objection to the offspring of a woman emperor succeeding to the throne. If this were to happen, it would be an historical first. Women have succeeded to the throne, but they have been succeeded in turn by offspring of an earlier male emperor. Every emperor (in theory) has been able to trace their ancestry back to the sun goddess through…
> sun goddess > paternal line Hmmm. I mean, I guess it depends whether you count her sons as the first generation or not, but still, why would deity-ness (is there a better word for this? Deism?) pass from her to her sons and thence only to their sons?